The influence of perceived management skills and perceived gender discrimination in launch decisions by women entrepreneurs

Women’s entrepreneurship: A model of business-family interface and performance

“…It was established that personal problems negatively moderate the relationship between the family total support (i.e., moral, financial, organizational) and firm performance. In Morocco, personal problems are negatively related with family organizational support (Welsh et al 2017c). In our ongoing research of female entrepreneurs in Austria, we find that the relationship between family financial support and firm performance is mediated by the woman entrepreneur's personal problems.…”

Work-Family Balance and Marketing Capabilities as Determinants of Chinese Women Entrepreneurs' Firm Performance

“…Finally, the category of management skills was used to measure how the respondent evaluated her management abilities (Asah, Fatoki, & Rungani, 2015;Chen, Greene, & Crick, 1998;Ramadani et al, 2013;Sambasivan, Abdul, & Yusop, 2009;Schenkel, D'Souza, Cornwall, & Matthews, 2015;Welsh, Kaciak, & Minialai, 2017). Previous research has shown that the lack of management skills and functional business skills can be an obstacle in running a business (Leibestein, 1968;Lerner & Haber, 2001).…”

Identifying personality traits associated with entrepreneurial success: does gender matter?

“…Few relevant papers such as those of Zghal (2005); El Harbi, Anderson and Mansour 2009and more recently Touzani et al (2015) contribute to the entrepreneurial debate in Tunisia by underlying the motivations and inhibitors related to entrepreneurship in this particular "ambivalent" context. Similarly, in the North Africa context, limited researches (Welsh et al, 2017;Benslama, 2010) focused on women entrepreneurship in Moroccan setting.…”